ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT THE TREATMENT OF CANCER - Overview of Nutrition and Cancer

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Overview of Some Nutritional Approaches to Cancer

 

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ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT THE TREATMENT OF CANCER

People with cancer are fairly often cured for no known reason. This is

called spontaneous remission, and it happens every day. Somehow, the body has

destroyed the cancer by itself. Anything we can do to encourage this is most

worthwhile. One way we may be able to assist the body is with vitamins and

other nutrients.

 

There are several nutritional aspects to look at in cancer treatment. One

of the most important is Vitamin C.

 

VITAMIN C AND COLLAGEN

 

Vitamin C is essential to the formation of collagen, the protein " glue "

that holds our cells together. Think of cells in a cell tissue like bricks in a

wall. The strength of a brick wall is not truly in the bricks, for a stack of

bricks can easily be pushed apart. So might a group of cells. Collagen is the

" mortar " that binds your cells together, just as mortar binds bricks together.

If collagen is abundant and strong, your cells hold together well. If cells

stick together, tumors have a tough time spreading through them. Strong

collagen can thereby arrest the spread of cancer.

 

Cancer cells secrete a substance called hyaluronidase, which helps them

eat away at collagen and break out into the rest of the body. This is described

in great detail in the book Hyaluronidase and Cancer, by Ewan Cameron, M.D.,

Pergamon Press, 1966. Dr. Cameron, in a now famous collaboration with Linus

Pauling, Ph.D., has offered evidence that high Vitamin C levels maximize

collagen production. If cancer cells are going to try to spread by destroying a

person's collagen, it just makes sense to make lots more collagen to keep them

from doing it.

 

To do this, a person fighting cancer probably needs enormous amounts of

any substance that helps make collagen. One such substance is Vitamin C.

Curiously enough, persons with cancer commonly have exceptionally LOW levels of

Vitamin C in their bodies. This might help explain why their collagen has not

been able to prevent cancer from spreading.

 

There is nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying regular high

doses of vitamin C with any cancer patient.

 

VITAMIN C AND THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

 

Another reason to use Vitamin C in cancer treatments is that Vitamin C

helps strengthen the immune system. Maximum immune function is vital if we want

the body to kill cancer. Yet medical treatments such as radiation and

chemotherapy actually weaken the immune system a great deal. There are, then,

really two reasons to bolster immunity with Vitamin C. First, large quantities

of the vitamin often enable a person to more easily tolerate large doses of

radiation and chemotherapy, with far fewer side effects. Second, stronger

immune function can only help the patient to fight the

disease better in general.

 

VITAMIN C AND PAIN RELIEF

 

In England, it is not uncommon for terminally ill patients to receive

narcotics as strong as heroin to ease their pain. One side benefit of Vitamin C

studies at Vale of Leven Hospital in Scotland was profound pain relief.

Patients given ten grams (ten thousand milligrams) of intravenous Vitamin C each

day had greatly reduced pain even after the narcotic was discontinued (Cancer

and Vitamin C, by Ewan Cameron, M.D. and Linus Pauling, Ph.D., Warner Books,

1981).

 

ADMINISTRATION OF VITAMIN C

 

Vitamin C is most effective given intravenously. Appropriately detailed

information for doctors is available in Dr. Cameron's " Protocol for the

Intravenous Use of Vitamin C in the Treatment of Cancer " posted on this website

under " Cameron Protocol. " Additional directions for administering vitamin C by

I.V., written by Robert F. Cathcart, M.D., are posted on this website under

" Vitamin C I.V. " Still more injectable vitamin C dosage information is found in

" Significance of High Daily Intake of Ascorbic Acid in Preventive Medicine, " by

Frederick R. Klenner, M.D., in A Physician's Handbook on Orthomolecular

Medicine, Roger J. Williams and Dwight K. Kalita, ed., Keats Publishing Co.,

l977.

 

Vitamin C may also be taken by mouth, but this is not ideal. To

approximate the constancy of an intravenous drip it is necessary to have very

frequent oral doses. A dose of the vitamin every half hour that the patient is

awake is not excessive. The amount of each dose is the maximum amount that a

person can tolerate without diarrhea. Diarrhea indicates bodily saturation with

the vitamin. Results may require truly large daily totals. Remember that oral

doses are not as efficient as intravenous vitamin C, so it takes much more to do

the job. " C " given orally has to be absorbed

through the digestive tract, and a good bit of it isn't.

 

Generally speaking, the sicker the patient, the more " C " s/he can hold.

Let's say a person has diarrhea at just five hundred milligrams (0.5 g) per dose

and a daily total of less than 20,000 mg (20 g). This indicates a NEED for

relatively little of the vitamin. A person with pneumonia (or cancer) may have

an immune system that would soak up as much as 200,000 mg per day.

 

That is a lot of vitamin C, but then we are also asking a lot of it.

 

It is important to be consistent with large quantities of Vitamin C. It

needs to be taken EVERY DAY and OFTEN. Taking the vitamin sporadically is of

little value, and may result in a rebound effect of temporary deficiency.

Taking too much at one time may result in a false saturation diarrhea. Almost

anyone taking 6,000 mg or more of vitamin C AT ONE TIME will experience

diarrhea, yet the cancer patient might really be able to hold more than twenty

times that amount IF TAKEN IN SMALLER, DIVIDED DOSES throughout the entire day.

 

Evidence indicates that vitamin C does not interfere with conventional

cancer treatments and may in fact assist them.

 

NUTRITIONAL APPROACHES OTHER THAN VITAMIN C

 

Several vitamins and minerals continue to show value in the prevention and

treatment of cancer. Principal among these are vitamin A, vitamin E, and

selenium.

 

VITAMIN A

 

High doses of vitamin A have proved effective against a number of forms of

cancer. Vitamin A acceptance as therapy is probably slow due to the potential

toxicity of the oil form of the vitamin when taken in enormous quantities for a

long time. However, the vitamin A precursor, called carotene or provitamin A,

is strictly non-toxic regardless of quantity or duration. It is also more

effective against cancer than the oil form. The body internally converts stored

beta-carotene into vitamin A on demand. It is the totally safe carotene form

that needs to be given, and in very high doses.

 

The effective amount of carotene may exceed 500,000 International Units

(I.U.) daily. Physicians need to remember that a harmless carotenosis, or

orange-colored skin, is the only side effect of massive provitamin A dosage.

That amount of carotene can be obtained from six to eight glasses of fresh

carrot juice per day. Such a natural source guarantees a mixture of all the

different forms of carotene, which is more therapeutically effective than just

the beta form.

 

VITAMIN E

 

Vitamin E is an antioxidant and free radical scavenger that seems to help

prevent cell damage related to cancer. It is a fat-soluble vitamin with no

known toxicity. Doses of 800 to 1200 I.U. are commonly employed.

 

SELENIUM

 

Regions of the United States with this trace mineral in their soil have

less cancer than those regions that don't. Research has indicated that selenium

works with vitamin E both to protect body cells and to slow tumor growth. Only

a very small amount of selenium is needed for this beneficial effect, probably

between 50 and 200 micrograms (mcg) daily. Selenium should not be taken in large

amounts.

 

 

THE GERSON CANCER THERAPY

 

" I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in medical

history. "

Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 

In the late 1920's, Max Gerson, M.D. began curing cancer with nutrition.

His treatment is detailed in A CANCER THERAPY: Results of Fifty Cases (Third

Edition, by Max Gerson, Gerson Institute, CA, 1977). There is no book like this

one. It is full of detailed case histories including X-ray photographs, charts

and dosage schedules, and lists of all necessary materials.

 

The Gerson therapy works towards the detoxification and nutritional

restoration of the body, focusing on the liver. This is accomplished primarily

through intensive feeding with raw vegetable juices, natural foods, and

supplements. It is a labor intensive program, and takes a minimum of 18 months

to complete. Hospitalization is not a requirement. Dr. Gerson achieved

remarkable results even from diagnosed terminal patients. It would be difficult

to justify denying any patient the potential benefits of this proven nutritional

program. It can't hurt to try it.

 

 

 

 

 

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